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Show STILL A MYSTERY, Facts are Developing, How-ever,Looking How-ever,Looking to the End. SPIRITUALISTIC CRANKS Are Telling Sheriff Brown Jim How to Prcc6d and Where to go to TJnrayel the Myatery, But Johnny Takes No Heed of Their Fairy Tales. Sheriff Brown returned last evening from Lehi. He has little that is new to report concerning the Pelican Point trinle murder mystery. Men are still at work dredging the lake, but as yet have found no trace of tbe lost team and wagon. The sheriff says that the residents of Lehi are deeply interested in the unraveling of the mystery and have proffered him money help as well as the time and assistance of a hundred hun-dred men if nel be and entirely free of charge. If the men now at work upon the lake do not find something within the next few days, the sheriff says he will accept this help and go out from Lehi with a large force of men and give the whole north end of the lake a most thorough dredging. The sheriff eays that while he is compelled com-pelled to admit that all the evidence so far adduced points to old man Hayes as the perpetrator of the awful butchery, butch-ery, yet he has not collected data and eyidei.ee sufficient yet to warrant him in accusing Hayes of the crime officially offici-ally and placing the man under arrest. New fact after new fact, however, some of great importance, sorus more or less unimportant,continuetocome to his attention, and by placing tl ese, one upon the oilier in their proper order, he expects in time to fasten the crime ' where it belongs ana have justice meeted out to the guilty party. Qaes:ioned as to the particular new facts in evidence that have come up pointing more strongly and more directly di-rectly to Hayes as the criminal, the sheriff would not give many of them for publication. ''While the public rave been very kind to me," said Mr. Brown, "in giving me much information informa-tion that has greatly aided me in this task, and while 1 would like to be as kind to them and give them all the information in-formation I can, for I know they are anxious, yet my plans are not rully matured and were I to divulge them by making public some of tbe data that I have come acr 'S3 that has led me to follow the trail I am now following, I might be balked in my work. It will iHRe considerable time j et to unravel this myEtery. Whila we think we are on the rigut trail we realize that we are not at the end of it yet by a long wav." If the sheriff is working on th theory that Hayes is the murderer, and from ail he says it ia certainly evident that he is. he has tumbled across the object he had for butchering the boys, and it is nothing buc a big wad ol money in sight. The path leading to this money was a round about one for Hayes and would have necessitated tria committing another murder, tbe killing of Mrs. Hay b who owns the money, which inocty Albert Hayea would have inherited nad he lived and Mrs. Hayes bad died or been murJered. While S ieriff Brown has been approached ap-proached by parties in possession of in lormation valuable to him, he ha3 also been bored with cranks, oi which tbe spiritualistic crank ia the moBt numerous. numer-ous. They will invariably tfiye him a long and usually a more or less interesting inter-esting talk and wind up by advising him to go to some madame or other who ia posseesed with second sight, who communicates with spirits and who has, for a fee, given useful information infor-mation to or unsolved mysterka for the narators. "Then it is," saya Sheriff Brown, "that my tired gets to aching very veiy much." |